Tag Archives: Planning

Weekend reading: Software projects planning and estimation

By Dima Malenko | Published: July 17, 2009

Here are some links to interesting stuff on software estimation and projects planning for weekend reading and watching. Your Will Suffer From Power Laws. There are some things, which are the way the are, and you can not change them, even if you want. You can not spit upwind (at least, not with desirable result); you [...]

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Wimbledon – perfect uncertainty management

By Dima Malenko | Published: June 22, 2009

For years I’ve been using Wimbledon tournament as an example of really good uncertainty management: with all those games taking very different amounts of time, unpredictable rains (in 2008 man’s final was interrupted twice) – it is a scheduling nightmare. Yet, man’s final always happens on the 2nd Sunday of tournament (except for 2001 when [...]

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